Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.

The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.

Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.

I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky.

Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One hasn't eaten anything for ten days. The other has eaten five times a day, every day. He sees the shape of the loaf. The other man with his urgent need sees inside into the taste, and into the nourishment the bread could give. Be that hungry, to see within all beings the Friend.